Memory for performed actions in dementia of Alzheimer type: Further evidence for a global semantic memory deficit

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 381-387

  Mack, Wolfgang ^a   Eberle, Christine ^a   Frölich, Lutz ^b   Knopf, Monika ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action memory; Alzheimer type dementia; Enactment effect; Encoding failure; Semantic memory; Two high threshold model

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 27844529583     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089135     Document Type: Article

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